I don’t completely follow. Why is it absurd to want to generate documents that are editable by humans?

No, I mean it's absurd that a horrible "standard" like a Word Doc has such staying power, and that we have to keep writing things against it.

Since HTML is so rich and the DX is amazing these days, I wish HTML file sharing for the document use case (and using the browser as a client) was widely accepted, it’s another problem/opportunity I’ve pondered a lot.

it could be worse and be completely closed source like google docs